Hail, McHenry
- When
- April 17, 10:55 PM CST to 10:58 PM CST
- Where
- McHenry County, 9 mi NE of Drake
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 48.017, -100.233
Hail in North Dakota, April 17, 2005
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 17, 2:05 PM CST, 8 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 2:05 PM CST, 8 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 305 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2005 .SHORT TERM... MODELS AGAIN IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH FEATURES. FIRST CONCERN TODAY IS CHANCE CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG DRYLINE AND WARMFRONT WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA CAN MOVE NORTH OF BORDER. CU DEVELOPING NOW FROM NE RAPID CITY SOUTH. AXIS OF BEST CAPE BUILDS NORTH INTO CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA BUT STRONG CAPPING STILL PRESENT. WILL ADD CHANCE EVENING THUNDERSTORMS TO EVENING PERIOD OVER SOUTHERN PORTION OF CWA. NORTHERN COUNTIES WILL WAIT UNTIL MAIN SURFACE TROUGH MOVES FROM EASTERN MONTANA TO NORTH DAKOTA BORDER AFTER 05Z. ALL MODELS SIGNIFICANTLY WETTER THIS RUN WITH NEXT SYSTEM MOVING FROM DESERT SOUTHWEST ON TUESDAY...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN COUNTIES. BUMPED POPS FOR MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. TEMPERATURES COOL AS LONG WAVE TROUGH MOVES TO CENTRAL ROCKIES BUT CWA REMAINS IN SOUTHERN BRANCH WITH STRONG NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT IN NORTHERN BRANCH NORTH OF BORDER. TEMPERATURES COOL TO NORMAL WITH HIGHS IN THE MID 50S AND LOWS NEAR FREEZING TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. .LONG TERM... THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...REGION FALLS UNDER A QUASI 500MB DEFORMATION FIELD COL OVER THE LONGTERM. GFS ADVERTISING HIGH PRESSURE RIDGING OVER THE SOUTHCENTRAL PLAINS...LOW PRESSURE ROTATING OVER THE GREAT BASIN AND EXTENDING TO JUST OFF THE CAL/OREGON PACIFIC COAST...AND ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER SOUTHEASTERN CANADA. LATER ON IN THE EXTENDED...THE RIDGING OVER SOUTHCENTRAL PLAINS MIGHT EXTEND JUST FAR ENOUGH NORTHWARD TO BUMP OUR TEMPS A LITTLE ABOVE AVERAGE. NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIP EVENTS ANTICIPATED. KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE OF POPS THURS INTO FRIDAY AS THERE MAY BE ENOUGH DYNAMIC AND MOISTURE TO TRIGGER SOME SHOWERS. LONG RANGE MODELS ARE STILL DIFFERING ON OVERALL TIMING AND PLACEMENT OF DYNAMICS AND UPPER LEVEL PRESSURE FIELDS...SO AGAIN MADE VERY LITTLE CHANGES TO THE REST OF THE EXTENDED FORECAST. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE && HW/NH
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 17, 3:02 AM CST, 19 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 402 AM CDT SUN APR 17 2005 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-180901- ADAMS-BILLINGS-BOTTINEAU-BOWMAN-BURKE-BURLEIGH-DICKEY-DIVIDE-DUNN- EMMONS-FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-GRANT-HETTINGER-KIDDER-LA MOURE-LOGAN- MCHENRY-MCINTOSH-MCKENZIE-MCLEAN-MERCER-MORTON-MOUNTRAIL-OLIVER- PIERCE-RENVILLE-ROLETTE-SHERIDAN-SIOUX-SLOPE-STARK-STUTSMAN-WARD- WELLS-WILLIAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WILLISTON...MINOT...JAMESTOWN... DICKINSON...CROSBY...BOWMAN...BOTTINEAU...BISMARCK...MANDAN... WATFORD CITY...WASHBURN...STANLEY...RUGBY...MOTT...MEDORA...LINTON... HETTINGER...HARVEY...ELLENDALE...CARRINGTON...BEULAH...BELCOURT... BEACH AND ASHLEY 402 AM CDT SUN APR 17 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire in Wyoming, April 17, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, April 17, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 17, 2005
- Hail in Oklahoma, April 17, 2005
- Hail in Iowa, April 17, 2005
- Hail in New Mexico, April 17, 2005
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, April 17 to 19, 2005
- Hail in Texas, April 17, 2005
- Hail in Texas, April 17, 2005
- Hail in South Dakota, April 17, 2005
- Hail in Colorado, April 17, 2005
- Debris Flow in Colorado, April 17 to 30, 2005
More
Every storm in North Dakota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in North Dakota, April 2005
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5443910.